When Sir Timothy Berners-Lee took part in giving birth to the world wide web the beginnings of a new branch of evolution was given life. Sure it was a life of one’s and zero’s but like mankind, once that spark was lit there was no holding back its onward rush. Once that first hyperlink was clicked we were a forever changed society - there was no putting that genie back in the bottle. Just as how closely tied we would become to this electronic life force could never be reversed.

Contrary to the natural laws of the survival of the fittest the web has become more of a modern get quick rich scheme off of the backs of people wanting to belong to something larger than themselves and willing to give up just about anything to do so. While natural selection predicated that only the best of the previous generations shall go on to create future generations, our electronic doppelganger world increasingly represents what our real world has become. A place where money is the driving factor of everything being done regardless of the fancy terminology being used to sugar coat the increasing technological divide that has been created.

In the beginning years of Sir Timothy’s child the key concept was the free exchange of ideas and information; and even though we now have the tools to make this ideal a true reality we have been succumbed into thinking that the web is all about us giving away our information for the huge financial benefit of a few. Where information was meant to be a benefit for the whole it now becomes the marketplace where the worth of all that collected personal information is your ticket in.

All this is being built on top of a foundation that has some serious flaws in it as well. We have a system that can be brought to its knees by well placed botnet attacks, spammers run rampant across all the web mediums and security has become a saleable item in thousands of electronic thieves markets. Instead of building future generations of our cyber namesakes from a solid base we are willingly diluting the electronic soup of life for no benefit care who brought the knowledge, it only cares what the knowledge is. Anything else is just chum to muddy the waters making it harder to see the clear expanse of the human knowledgebase - the ultimate gift of mankind to itself. Instead we have turned our modern library of Alexandria into nothing more than a playground where we nudge and wink at each other while believing these social networks and graphs we rush to join is increasing our human knowledge.